Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-22 | Page 1 | 2 Persons Die in Snow Slide

2 PERSONS DIE IN SNOW SLIDE Autos Are Trapped on Snoqualmie Pass SEATTLE Feb 22 Two Two perSons persons persons per per- sons were killed in a which buried two automobiles on Snoqualmie pass Coroner Otto H. H Mittelstadt announced today The They wore were asphyxiated by gas cas fumes as they were caught in the cab of a truck One other person was missing and andone andone andone one was injured he said Several automobiles and trucks and one p passenger bus also were re reported reported reported re- re ported trapped by the slide sUde which roared down the tho steep mountainside mountain mountain- side near the summit of the pass in the heart of ot tho the Cascades during the night The bodies were recovered Tho The first report of oC the tragedy was received here hero by J. J R. R Jordan Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan in charge of the state highway high high- V way vay y departments department's short wave radio station The message said that burled buried motorists were still being beinE taken alive from the tho snow Jordan re re- re ported Hundreds of ot Seattle skiers had gone to the summit for the two-day two holiday